linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V3 2/2] PCI: handle CRS returned by device after FLR

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Date:   Wed, 1 Mar 2017 12:31:49 -0500
From:   Sinan Kaya <okaya@...eaurora.org>
To:     Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>
Cc:     linux-pci@...r.kernel.org, timur@...eaurora.org,
        cov@...eaurora.org, vikrams@...eaurora.org,
        Lorenzo.Pieralisi@....com, linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 2/2] PCI: handle CRS returned by device after FLR

On 2/21/2017 9:37 PM, Sinan Kaya wrote:
>> SR-IOV spec rev 1.1, 3.4.1.1 & 3.4.1.2, Vendor ID and Device ID fields
>> for the VF return 0xFFFF when read.  The "Virtualization Intermediary"
>> is supposed to use the vendor ID from the PF and the device ID defined
>> in the PF SR-IOV capability.
> 
> Interesting. Since lspci was showing the correct vendor id and device id, I
> assumed that it is coming from offset 0.
> 
> Maybe, the right thing is to figure out if this is a virtual function or not.
> If it is a physical function, check the CRS first before reading the command
> register in the existing loop.
> 
> 

I went back and read the spec for CRS in FLR case one more time. We are required
to wait up to 1 seconds if the device is sending CRS. The current code seems to
be already handling this delay. 



-- 
Sinan Kaya
Qualcomm Datacenter Technologies, Inc. as an affiliate of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. is a member of the Code Aurora Forum, a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project.